A Brief Story of the OS Wars

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Intel and AMD announced a dual OS platform that would allow one device to run both Android and Windows—yet another blow to Microsoft, which has been fighting a losing battle against Apple, Google, and other companies.

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2005*: The 4GB iPod Mini is introduced, followed by the iPod Nano.

2006: Two hackers, narf2006 and blanka, are the first to run Windows on a Mac.

2007: The iPhone is released.

2008: Android is released, on the HTC Dream.

2009: Microsoft experiences the first quarterly sales drop in its history as a public company. Executives cite slackening demand for Windows as PC sales decline.